December 27, 2016

Sometimes I chase butterflies around the back yard with my camera and macro lens. This year I discovered that, when evening falls and the butterflies disappear, a second shift of moths takes over. By then, focusing is almost impossible and shutter speeds are long, so you have to go for the dreamy look. (BTW, I think this is a Dogbane Tiger Moth.) Greenville, SC

October 25, 2016

October 22, 2016

October 19, 2016

I reworked my "saturated image" program a little, to give me choices about how dark the darker values are rendered. I've found I like most images a little darker than my original program produced. (For those geeks among you, I also converted the color math into the HSV space from the RGB space, which now seems like an obvious thing to do, but I hadn't done it.) We'll have recent examples for the next several posts.

August 29, 2016

August 26, 2016

August 23, 2016

After a very hot and sunny June and July, we finally got some cloudy days in August. Cloudy days are when you pick up your camera and head to the woods. We'll now start a fairly long series of Lake Conestee Nature Park pictures. Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC